Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Balaena borealis Fischer, 1829 (synonym), Balaena maximus, Balaena musculus Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym), Balaenoptera carolinae Malm, 1866 (synonym), Balaenoptera gigas Reinhardt, 1857 (synonym), Balaenoptera indica Blyth, 1859 (synonym), Balaenoptera jubartes Lacépède, 1804 (synonym), Balaenoptera miramaris Lahille, 1898 (synonym), Balaenoptera sibbaldi Van Beneden, 1887 (synonym), Balaenoptera sibbaldii Flower, 1885 (synonym), Physalus latirostris Flower, 1865 (synonym), Physalus sibbaldii Gray, 1847 (synonym), Pterobalaena gigas Reinhardt, 1857 (synonym), Pterobalaena grypus Munter, 1877 (synonym), Rorqualus boops F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym), Rorqualus borealis Hamilton, 1837 (synonym), Rorqualus major Knox, 1870 (synonym), Sibbaldius antarcticus Burmeister, 1866 (synonym), Sibbaldius borealis Gray, 1864 (synonym), Sibbaldius musculus Kellogg, 1929 (synonym), fide Appeltans et al. (2010)

Origin: Migrant

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• Merlen, G. (1995) A field guide to the marine mammals of Galapagos. Charles Darwin Foundation.
• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
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• IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.